In six quick episodes, BBC’s Being Human managed to give us a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf we could care about. For the most part, it bucked trends, steered reasonably clear of cliche and tackled tough topics including vampire snuff films and suspected (but unfounded) paedophilia.
But for us, the episode that epitomises the nature of this show about supernaturals put the focus on Annie, pining across the preceeding episodes for a wedding that would never be, for it to be revealed in the third it was her abusive fiance who’d killed her.
This obstinacy to see through rose coloured glasses even when she herself was see-through and to deny the truth even in death, was a biting comment on the too common abusive situations people find themselves in and was handled deftly in a fantasy show with very ordinary, often brutal roots.
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